Could Your City Be the Next Amazon Headquarters Location?

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Could Your City Be the Next Amazon Headquarters Location?

09/07/2017

Amazon plans to invest over $5 billion in construction to open Amazon HQ2, a second company headquarters in North America. Amazon expects this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. In addition to Amazon's direct hiring and investment, construction and ongoing operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community.

"We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters," said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. "Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs. We're excited to find a second home."

How to Bring Amazon to Your City

Amazon is opening the Amazon HQ2 Request for Proposal ("RFP") now, and local and state government leaders interested in learning more about how they can bring Amazon to their community can visit www.amazon.com/amazonHQ2.

In choosing the location for HQ2, Amazon has a preference for:

Metropolitan areas with more than one million people

A stable and business-friendly environment

Urban or suburban locations with the potential to attract and retain strong technical talent

Communities that think big and creatively when considering locations and real estate options

HQ2 could be, but does not have to be:

An urban or downtown campus

A similar layout to Amazon's Seattle campus

A development-prepped site. We want to encourage states and communities to think creatively for viable real estate options, while not negatively affecting our preferred timeline.

Amazon estimates its investments in Seattle from 2010 through 2016 resulted in an additional $38 billion to the city's economy - every dollar invested by Amazon in Seattle generated an additional 1.4 dollars for the city's economy overall.

Amazon's Seattle headquarters features 33 buildings, including 24 restaurants/cafes and eight other retail services. The 8.1 million square foot headquarters has 40,000 employees, who bring in $25.7 billion in compensation.